note 51681 added to function.strtok

There is a method to remove all the punctuations and only put the words into an array called "$token", where variable $invalid lists all the punctuations and "\xxx" are the octal numbers of punctuations. At the end, dispalys total number of words in $string and the 4th words in the string. $string = "Hello, $%^\n\\\"jeff!!!!\"/. 'How are you!'"; $invalid = "\40\41\42\43\44\45\46\47\48\49\50\51\52\53 \54\55\56\57\72\73\74\75\76 \77\100\133\134\135\136\137\138\139\140 \173\174\175\176\n\r\t"; $tok = strtok($string, $invalid); while ($tok) { echo "Word=$tok<br>"; $token[]=$tok; $tok = strtok($invalid); } // displays the number of words in the string and the 4th word echo "Number of token: " . count($token) . "<br>"; echo $token[3]; ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51681 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51681&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51681&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51681&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51681&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51681&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51681&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php